Sculptures of Rosalind Franklin, Augusta Gregory, Ada Lovelace and Mary Wollstonecraft to join 40 busts of men

New case and plinth designed to highlight the beauty of Ireland’s best-known treasure

Famous manuscript will be removed from public display until next March to facilitate conservation works

The 14th-century masterpiece is a ‘hidden treasure’ depicting the end of days

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Priceless 7th-century manuscript inspired the Book of Kells a century later

Fifty years after it opened in Trinity, the building is well loved, but not without critics

Futurologists predicted that libraries would have closed by now, but they have a key role to play in the knowledge economy

We discuss Simon Fujiwara’s Imma installation The Humanizer, here about perhaps the biggest game-to-film adaptation to date, and discuss why it’s a golden age for libraries

Proposal to declutter Long Room and create ‘Genius Bar’ for aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs

Mediterranean crisis hung over meeting with Taoiseach, writes Lara Marlowe